NEW YORKOctober 4, 2024 – Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has been named the 2024 Kia ​​WNBA Rookie of the Year, the WNBA announced today. It gives the Fever back-to-back winners of the annual award after Indiana forward-center Aliyah Boston won the honor last season.

Clark received 66 votes from a national panel of 67 sportswriters and broadcasters. Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese received one vote.

As a starter in all 40 of Indiana’s regular season games, Clark averaged 19.2 points, a WNBA-high 8.4 assists, 5.7 rebounds, 1.33 steals and 35.4 minutes, leading rookies in all five categories per game, excluding rebounds (third). . Not only did Clark post the fifth-highest single-season assists average in WNBA history, but he also ranked seventh in the league with 18 points^Th in rebounds, 15^Th in steals and seconds in minutes per game. She also had the second-highest free throw rate in the WNBA (90.6%).

Clark set a WNBA single-season record with 337 assists. She also set the WNBA rookie single-season record with 769 points and 122 three-pointers made. Clark led the league with three points scored and finished six points shy of the WNBA single-season record of 128 set by New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu last season.

As a starter for Team WNBA in the 2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game, Clark was named the Kia WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Month for August three times in a row (Weeks 9, 10 and 11) and the WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week four times named Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month (May, July, August and September).

Behind Clark and fellow 2024 WNBA All-Stars Boston and Kelsey Mitchell, the Fever (20-20) secured a playoff berth for the first time since 2016 and improved its win total by seven games compared to last season (13-27).

Below are more highlights from Clark’s 2024 regular season:

• Recorded the first two triple-doubles by a rookie in WNBA history – 19 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists against New York on July 6; and 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against the Los Angeles Sparks on September 4.
• Set a WNBA single-game record with 19 assists on July 17 against the Dallas Wings.
• Became the first WNBA rookie to score at least 30 points and 10 assists in a game (31 points and 12 assists vs. Chicago on August 30).
• Posted 14 games with at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists and eight games with at least 20 points and 10 assists – both WNBA single-season highs.
• She averaged 24.7 points and 9.3 assists in her first 10 games after the break at the Paris Olympics – an 8-2 stretch for Indiana that marked its first five-game winning streak since 2015.

Clark was selected by the Fever with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, presented by State Farm. She had a historic career at the University of Iowa, where she broke the NCAA Division I scoring record, became the first Division I player to lead her conference in both scoring and assists in four consecutive seasons, and was the consensus Division I Player of the Year honors for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.

In honor of being named the 2024 Kia ​​WNBA Rookie of the Year, Clark will receive $5,150 and a trophy to commemorate the achievement.

Below are the voting results for the 2024 Kia ​​WNBA Rookie of the Year Award and a list of previous honorees.

VOTING RESULTS FOR 2024 KIA WNBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

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